Stewart v. Department of Highways

JANVIER, Judge.

This suit for damages is the aftermath of an expropriation proceeding which was brought by the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways (State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways v. Stewart Realty Co., Inc., of Delaware, No. 346-992, Div. “C”, Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans), and under which the Department of Highways condemned and took over certain property of Stewart Realty Company, Inc., of Delaware, which was needed in the construction of one of the approaches to the Mississippi River Bridge which was then under construction and…